PYMNTS.com January 30, 2025
This week in artificial intelligence models and tools, Microsoft announced that DeepSeek R1 is available on Azure AI Foundry, and Alibaba released a model that it said is better than DeepSeek. Meanwhile, Meta launched a memory feature, and Google announced new Gemini Live capabilities.
Microsoft Azure Adds DeepSeek
Microsoft is making an AI model from Chinese startup DeepSeek available to its Azure cloud customers.
The software giant said in a Wednesday (Jan. 29) blog post that DeepSeek R1, the startup’s reasoning model, is joining the Azure AI Foundry, a one-stop-shop platform for designing, customizing and managing AI solutions. R1 will be among the more than 1,800 models available for use in the foundry.
DeepSeek R1 on Azure resides on a...